Senate President Robert Stivers presses for meeting on sexual harassment controversy

7:53 PM,
Aug. 28, 2013

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Senate President Robert Stivers on Wednesday said all legislative leaders should meet to review the ongoing sexual harassment controversy in the legislature, and he blasted House Speaker Greg Stumbo for refusing such a meeting.

Stivers said no Senate leader had been informed of an internal investigation that has been going on for months of complaints by women on the legislative staff against Rep. John Arnold. And Stivers, R-Manchester, said that this week Stumbo's office "has declined to go into session to apprise us of what investigations are going on and who is conducting them."